Here is more info on the letter. Not sure if the signature or other info is related to previous, I am sure someone on ATS is tracking that level of
data though.

DUBAI (Reuters) - A letter purporting to come from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network claimed responsibility for the train bombings in Spain on
Thursday, calling them strikes against "crusaders," a London-based Arabic newspaper said.
"We have succeeded in infiltrating the heart of crusader Europe and struck one of the bases of the crusader alliance," said the letter which called
the attacks "Operation Death Trains." There was no way of authenticating the letter, a copy of which was faxed to Reuters' office in Dubai by the
London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper.

The letter bore the signature "Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades." The newspaper received similar letters from the same brigade claiming responsibility on
behalf of al Qaeda for a November bombing of two synagogues in Turkey and the August bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

Spain's interior minister said authorities are investigating a van found with eight detonators and an Arabic tape with Koranic teachings to determine
if it is related to the bombings on commuter trains in Madrid that killed at least 190 people. The Interior Ministry said the Spanish terror group ETA
remains the prime suspect.

Originally posted by elevatedone
Spain's interior minister said authorities are investigating a van found with eight detonators and an Arabic tape with Koranic teachings to determine
if it is related to the bombings on commuter trains in Madrid that killed at least 190 people. The Interior Ministry said the Spanish terror group ETA
remains the prime suspect.

Do we really believe these idiots sitting around a cave hiding somewhere are really using a percentage base ratings system to determine their
readiness for attacks? I am more inclined to believe that a majority of them cannot even read or wipe their own butts neverless do statistical
analysis on the prepardness for an attack. That one line to me makes the whole document seem a bit suspect.

This is what I truly find scary, the simplicty of it all is frightening.

A total of 10 bombs, nearly all in backpacks, exploded in a 15-minute span along nine miles of the commuter line — running from Santa Eugenia to the
Madrid hub of Atocha — killing 190 people and injuring more than 1,240, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said.

From the letter:
"We bring the good news to Muslims of the world that the expected 'Winds of Black Death' strike against America is now in its final stage...90
percent (ready) and God willing near," the letter said.

Another reason Arab Terror has to be behind this. The number of fatalities points away from ETA seeing as they shy away from killing many people at
once.

ETA had been blamed for more than 800 deaths in its decades-old campaign to carve an independent Basque homeland out of territory straddling
northern Spain and southwest France.

Until now, the highest death toll in an ETA attack was 21 killed in a supermarket blast in Barcelona in 1987

These guys are simmilar to other Euro terror groups like the Red Brigad or IRA where they try to disrupt daily events but not kill scores of people at
once, the sheer brutality of this attack would lead my finger to point towards more Islamic Fundamentalists.

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